[Javascript] semicolon insertion paranoia

[Steve Clay]

I know that it's poor practice to rely on automatic semicolon insertion at
the end of lines, but I'm sometimes paranoid that, when I just want to use
whitespace liberally, some JS engine out there is going to automatically
insert a semicolon that breaks my statement.

Consider:

function invert(given) {
  return given
  ? false
  : true;
}

If "return given" was converted to "return given;", a syntax error would
occur on the next line, or the function would completely change..

Do I need to worry about stuff like this? Would JS engines parse the
following function /faster/?

function invert(given) {
  return given ?
    false
  : true;
}

Steve
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